Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.